I'm "half-half" so to speak. I work as a CTO in my day job (as an employee). Also I'm self-employed (via a company structure) to build https://persumi.com - a blogging platform, and https://rizz.farm - a lead gen platform, as well as to work on client work. https://persumi.com/u/fredwu/hire-fred :). - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

After having worked at many startups, most recently as CTO, I had finally started building my own SaaS (https://persumi.com, a blogging/audio platform and https://rizz.farm, a lead generation platform) in 2023. So for 2024 I'd love to start monetising them and turning them into real businesses. Fingers crossed. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I think it depends. I used Petal Pro (https://petal.build/) to build Persumi (https://persumi.com) in three months and Rizz.farm (https://rizz.farm) in six weeks, both in my spare time. It would not have been possible if it wasn't for the boilerplate taking care of things like authentication and user management. With a bit of digging around, things are pretty straightforward. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I built https://persumi.com to uplift my own blogs, and to turn text into audio (you can subscribe in your podcast app). Then, once I realised there's no good tools to promote it, I built https://rizz.farm so I can promote Persumi. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Personally, I enjoy the human aspect, so I've been working as a CTO for a few years now. On the side I spend my spare time working on open source projects, freelance projects and most recently my own apps (persumi.com and rizz.farm) because programming is still my passion and hobby. Source: 6 months ago

Great tips. I tried to do this with SVG icons in https://unstock.ai before a lot of people started creating text-to-vector solutions. You also have to keep evolving! - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago